Underweight, Overweight, and Linear Growth of Childhood Cancer Patients - the Growth Study

Running, not enrolling

Conditions studied: Childhood Cancer

In brief

The Growth study investigates nutritional status, BMI, and linear growth trajectories from birth to adulthood in childhood cancer patients and survivors. Specifically, it aims to identify the predictors driving these distinct growth and weight trajectories and evaluate the consistency of these findings across multiple European countries. The study will make use of routine collected clinical data from oncology centres. Additional information about diagnoses, treatments, sociodemographic, and lifestyle data are obtained by linkages with disease and population registries, and with previously conducted questionnaire studies among survivors. The study will provide insights into the nutritional status of childhood cancer patients and survivors and improve understanding of growth patterns in this population.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07750444

Run by

Fabiën Belle

People needed

12150

Starts

2025-10-01

Expected to finish

2030-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-08-06

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosed with cancer at age <20 years
• Diagnosed between 2004 and 2026
• Treated in one of the participating cancer centres:
• Switzerland: patients who visited one of the cancer centres in Switzerland: Aarau, Basel, Bellinzona, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Zurich.
• Portugal: patients diagnosed between 2012-2026 at the Portuguese paediatric oncology centres Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil - IPO-PORTO or at the Instituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil - IPOLFG.
• Slovenia: patients diagnosed between 2011-2026 at the paediatric oncology clinic University Medical Center Ljubljana.

Where it is running

• Kantonsspital Aarau AG — Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
• Universitäts-Kinderspital beider Basel (UKBB) — Basel, Basel, Switzerland
• Kinderklinik, Inselspital Bern — Bern, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
• Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), Universität Bern — Bern, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
• Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG) — Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
• Kinderspital Zentralschweiz, Luzern — Lucerne, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
• HOCH Health Ostschweiz Kantonsspital St.Gallen — Sankt Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Ostschweizer Kinderspital — Sankt Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Kinderspital Zürich — Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
• Ospedale Regionale di Bellinzona — Bellinzona, Canton Ticino, Switzerland
• Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV) — Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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